of the Fishery Board for Scotland. 



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TABLE C. — Record op Observations made on Board the 

 * Garland' during 1897. 



B. INVERTEBRATE FAUNA, &a.— 11. Firth of continued. 



Station 

 and Date. 



1897. 

 May 20. 

 If hours. 



Sept. 27. 

 10.30 a.m. 

 to 



12.25 p.m. 



Station 

 XII. 



April 21. 

 hours. 



April 28. 



2 hours. 

 (Night 

 haul.) 



May 20. 

 2 hours. 



May 26. 



2 hours. 

 (Night 

 haul.) 



Sept. 24. 

 1.55 p.m. 

 to 



3.55 p.m. 



Night 

 Trawl. 



Sept. 27. 



9.30 p.m. 

 to 



11.30 p.m. 



Organisms Captured. 



Neptunea antlqua, one ; Nephrops norvegicus, f. ; Asterias rubens, f. ; 

 Solaster papposa, one ; Porania pulvUlus, r. ; Echinus esculentus, f . ; 

 Brissopsis lyrifera, r. ; a considerable quantity of weed. 



Ascidia mentula, v. r. ; Ascidia, sp (?), r. ; Octopus vulgaris, v. r. ; 

 Fusus antiquus, v. r. ; Natica montagui, r. (dead, with Pagurid and 

 Hydractinia) ; Anomia ephippiwn, rii. c. ; Echinus esculentus, v. r. ; 

 Asterias rubens, f. ; Porania ptlvillus, r. ; Ophiothrix fragilis, f. ; 

 Galathea dispersa, r. ; Filigrana implexa ; Serpula vermicularis, f. A 

 considerable quantity of Laminaria, Fucus, and other sea-weeds came up 

 in the trawl, also an old pail covered more or less with Anomia 

 ephippiwm, Serpida vermicularis, and a few young Ophiothrix fragilis. 



Nephrops norvegicus, abdt. 



Portunus depurator, one ; Nephrops norvegicus, abdt. ; Asterias rubens, r. ; 

 Brissopsis lyrifera, f. ; Rhizostoma, sp., one ; Aglaophenia, sp., v. r. ; a 

 small quantity of sea- weed. 



Nephro2)s norvegicus, fr. ; Galathea, sp., f.«; Sepiola rondeletii, f. ; Asterias 

 rubens, f. ; Brissopsis lyrifera, f. ; zoophytes, f. ; a small quantity of sea- 

 weed. 



Munida rugosa, one ; Nephrops norvegicus, abdt. ; Br 

 V. r. ; zoophytes and weed, f. 



lyrifera, 



Rossia macrosoma, r. ; Elcione cirrosa, v. r. ; Cyprina islandica, f. (living) ; 

 Isocardia cor., one (living) ; Natica montagui, r. ; Nucula sulcata, i. ; 

 Nephrops norvegicus, very abdt. ; Portunus depurator, r. ; Pandalus 

 annulicornis, f. ; Crangon allmania, f. ; Galatliea dispersa, f. ; Steno- 

 rhynchus rostratus, r. ; Eupagurus prideauxii, r. ; Eupagurus pubescens^ 

 V. r. ; Anapagurus Imvis, v. r. ; Brissopsis lyrifera, i. ; Sabella, sp. (?), 

 V. r. ; Aglaophenia myriophyllum, r. ; Pennatula phosphorea, v. r. ; 

 Adamsia palliata, r. ; a little sea-weed and a quantity of grey mud came 

 up in this trawl. 



Little beside the fish came up in the trawl — a small quantity of mud and 

 the following animals : — Rossia macrosoma, two ; Fusus antiquus, one 

 (young) ; Nephrops norvegicus, f. ; Brissopsis lyrifera, L, and Pennatula 

 phosphorea, few. 



